In this episode of Muses: An Ampersand Podcast, Emma and Dan are talking about the American poet Emily Dickinson, who inspired Dan's/Bastille's song Emily & Her Penthouse In The Sky, which you can hear here: https://bastille.lnk.to/Emily

They talk about Emily's life and work, including her "friendship" with a "gal pal", and why she may not have been as much as a recluse as her reputation suggests - as well as who is to blame for that reputation. They also talk about Hey Arnold a surprising amount (ie: at all), and whether Dan wants his unreleased music burned when he dies.

Say hello at [email protected].

Muses: An Ampersand Podcast is presented by Dan Smith and Dr. Emma Nagouse, with research by Genevieve Johnson-Smith. It is produced by Dr. Emma Nagouse and Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions.

Cover photography by Bo Morgan, taken at the Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool.

Cover design by Chris Barker.

Episode artwork by Harriet Bruce.

Recorded by Tim Lozinski at TL Multimedia.

Mixed by Miles Wheway.

Thanks to Dr. Melissa Gustin for arranging the location for the cover art, and to Moira Mack and Charlie Barnes for their help with the jingle.

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In this episode of Muses: An Ampersand Podcast, Dr. Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) and Dan Smith (Bastille) take a long, slow look at Narcissus, who inspired Dan's song Seasons & Narcissus, which you can hear here: https://bastille.lnk.to/Seasons

They look into the different versions of the myth of Narcissus, and how and why it's changed over the years; they also look at the myth of Echo, who Dan did NOT write a song about. They also cover the history of narcissism, and why middle eights are brilliant.

You can say hello at [email protected].

Muses: An Ampersand Podcast is presented by Dan Smith and Dr. Emma Nagouse, with research by Dr. Aimee Hinds Scott. It is produced by Dr. Emma Nagouse and Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions.

Cover photography by Bo Morgan, taken at the Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool.

Cover design by Chris Barker.

Episode artwork by Harriet Bruce.

Recorded at Plosive.

Mixed by Miles Wheway.

Thanks to Dr. Melissa Gustin for arranging the location for the cover art; to Dr. Emma Rose Price-Goodfellow; and to Moira Mack and Charlie Barnes for their help with the jingle.

Sources:

• Ambroziak, Paige. “POUSSIN’S ECHO OF OVID.” WRECK 4.1, 2013
• Barrow, Rosemary. “Narcissus and Echo.” in A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology. Ed. Vanda Zajko. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2017
• Calimach, Andrew. Lovers’ Legends. New Rochelle: Haiduk Press, 2002
• Colquhoun, Matt. Narcissus in Bloom. London: Repeater Books, 2023
• Gotchold, Agnieszka. The Myth of Narcissus and Its Reception in Western Culture. Warsaw Bellerive-sur-Allier: Wydawnictwo DiG Édition La Rama, 2016
• Freud, Sigmund. On Narcissism, 1914
• Longus, Daphnis and Chloe 3.23
• Miguel, Jaime Segura San, ‘Mad Narcissists” 12 (n.d.)
• Nonnus, Dionysiaca 6
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.339-510
• Pausanias Description of Greece 9.31.7-9
• Vinge, Louise. The Narcissus theme in Western European literature. Lund: Gleerups, 1967

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In this first episode of Muses: An Ampersand Podcast, Dr. Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) and Dan Smith (Bastille) look at the life of Eve, who inspired Dan's/Bastille's song Eve & Paradise Lost, which you can hear here: https://bastille.lnk.to/Eve

Emma and Dan talk about exactly what the Bible (and the Qur'an) say about her; the different interpretations of her story; and the impact her story has had on popular culture, from Desperate Housewives to No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom; and Dan talks about the process of turning the story into the song. Dan also recites all of Paradise Lost from memory, and Emma does a deep dive into the lyrics of the song and that isn't awkward at all.

You can say hello at [email protected].

Muses: An Ampersand Podcast is presented by Dan Smith and Dr. Emma Nagouse. It is produced by Dr. Emma Nagouse and Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions.

Cover photography by Bo Morgan, taken at the Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool.

Cover design by Chris Barker.

Episode artwork by Harriet Bruce.

Recorded by Rich Andrews at Spiritland Productions.

Mixed by Miles Wheway.

Thanks to Dr. Melissa Gustin for arranging the location for the cover art, and to Moira Mack and Charlie Barnes for their help with the jingle.

Sources:

• Brenner-Idan, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to Genesis. The Feminist Companion to the Bible 2. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.
• Colette, Shelly. “Eroticizing Eve: A Narrative Analysis of Eve Images in Fashion Magazine Advertising.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 31.2 (2015): 5.
• Genesis 2-3
• Sanders, Theresa. Approaching Eden: Adam and Eve in Popular Culture. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc, 2009.

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Muses: An Ampersand Podcast sees Dan Smith (Bastille) and Dr. Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) take a deep dive into the lives of some amazing people from history and mythology, all of whom Dan wrote songs about for his latest project, Ampersand. Each episode is a conversation about history, music, mythology and popular culture, and how those things overlap.

Muses: An Ampersand Podcast is a Lead Mojo production.

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